Another edition of the TC mailbag means another handful of strange e-mails that corrupted our inboxes. Read at your own risk. Our first rant comes from... well... an idiot, I guess...

name -- The Delicious Idiot

challenge -- You people have problems. Youd din't have problems before...but now, you've got problems. I'm thinking of something along the lines of chinese water torture with a little acupuncture thrown in. I must do some research and puff a little magic dragoon, but this will be good. so, yeah. aww hunh! lil'bebbe.WATCH OUT! yow! (yeah laugh at my text, maybe I'll force on of you to feign James Brown sans sound). Tanning lotion also bears quite appealing potential as a challenge reprocussion. Ban this soleil you soon to be brown threeo,
yours phooey,

Eric Haneskimo(My last name just got way cooler than it was five minutes ago, which isn't to say it wasn't cool before)
deliciousidiot@yahoo.com

P.S. how long without long pants so far? any daisy dukes in tha hizznouse?

Where to begin? We do have problems, and Eric my pal so do you. From reading you challenge submission I have come to the conclusion that you can't focus on one thing for more than 2 seconds. When you do focus it comes out twisted, yo. I can't even begin to fathom what would happen if one of us was to "feign James Brown sans sound". While your lifestyle doesn't work out too well for internet communication I get the feeling that you would make a phenominal rapper. Would you like to be a member of FDR and the New Deal? We rip shit up old school. I would also like to clarify that none of us are currently living life without long pants. However Greg did once go a full year wearing shorts. He won five dollars.

Our next dip into the mailbag brings us to a question from Nicole, one of the Typical Crap regulars (and a fine art teacher). Nicole asks:

Who the hell is Lisa?

( This should be the #1 frequently asked question )

If the public wants to know, then the public shall know. Every site has it's own live at home Mom from California, right? At least that's what Lisa told us. She has been following for almost the entire life of Typical Crap and as she became more vocal we decided to make her part of the crew. We thought that she had an interesting take on things, and we knew that she wasn't going to take no for an answer so we gave Lisa her own little part of the Typical Crap universe. "Inside Crap" is where Lisa gets to be Lisa - the Howard Cosell of Typical Crap. This site has always been about the community. We encourage everyone to get as involved as Lisa has - it makes things so much more fun for everyone. For more info on Lisa and her iniside crap, check out her bio page.

It's not a full edition of the mailbag unless someone's mother gets involved. This week it's Ralph's. Ralphs mom sent us the following "challenge Submission":

name -- Ralphie's Mommie
challenge -- Saw the article in the journal.
[After this she copied and pasted the entire article]

Now I love Ralph's mom just as much as the next guy, and I know she meant well, but the execution on this whole ordeal was pretty poor. Firstly she submitted this about 3 times. The first oen worked just fine. Secondly is the whole issue of why she would do this in the first place. It's not like this article was a surprise (well maybe Ralph made it sound that way - who knows). We knew well in advance when it was going to drop. Also why did she bother to enter the entire text of the article. I pray to god that she didn't type the article in, but if she copied and pasted it I wonder why she didn't just give us the link (the link that we already had posted on the main page). I may be a little harsh on Mrs. Ralph, but it is only becuase I want her to submit a real challenge.

Closing the sack today is another one of those e-mails that makes life worth living. It comes from England, a place where they call lines "queues".

Hi Brian
I just checked out your site.its cool.

though you guys are into pulling on the gloves to box,whats your view on using boxing gloves to do mess up challenges,like we do in England a lot. e.g. guys wear boxing gloves to punch through boxes of cooking eggs they dunk boxing gloves into tubs of beans,ketchup,custard,jam,treacle and cream and throw them over to a team mate to hang on a clothes line the most gunged gloves winning

we put jam and cream into cakes and doughnuts and serve up plates of spageti bolognese using boxing gloves as scoops and put pizza toppings on wearing boxing gloves.

usually the results are lots of fun,hilarious and if sponsored raise cash for charity.

have you ever done or seen boxing gloves challenges done in the usa?
cheers

please do reply.

best

terry (terence C Jolley)

Yet another reason why runing this website makes my life better - if TC didn't exist then I wouldn't even know that this kinda shit was going on outside of the US of A. I suggest that everyone take a quick moment to process the mental image of what he was describing. I can't say that I have ever heard of this in America but I know for sure that this absolutely needs to be some sort of Typical Crap challenge. If we ever need to raise money we are going to have a bake sale where we bake and sell all the goods while wearing huge boxing gloves. Oh brittish!

Thats all we have in the mail sack (sack! [boy do I ever love that]) for today. If you guys keep the nonsense flowing over to challenges@typicalcrap.net we will keep the editions of the mailbag coming. You make Typical Crap what it is - we just shovel that crap back into your faces every now and then.